elaborate vs frou-frou

elaborate

adj
  • Intricate, fancy, flashy, or showy. 

  • Complex, detailed, or sophisticated. 

verb
  • to develop in detail or complexity 

  • (sometimes followed by on or upon, and then the object of the preposition) to expand/enlarge in detail 

frou-frou

adj
  • Highly ornamented, overly elaborate; excessively girly. 

  • Liable to create the sound of rustling cloth, similar to 19th-century dresses. 

  • Unimportant, silly, useless. 

verb
  • To move with the sound of rustling dresses. 

noun
  • A rustling sound, particularly the rustling of a large silk dress. 

How often have the words elaborate and frou-frou occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )